2136. Misbranding of electric light bulbs.    U. S. v. Archibald H. Roberts.    Plea
of guilty.   Fine, $25.    (F. D. C. No. 20179.    Sample Nos. 27022-H, 36781-H.)
INFORMATION FILED: October 24, 1946, District of Minnesota, against Archibald
H. Roberts, Minneapolis, Minn.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : Between the approximate dates of November 22, 1944, and
June 11,1945, from the State of Minnesota into the State of Montana.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Misbranding, Section 502 (a), certain statements in the
circular entitled "A New Scientific Development" and on printed placards
" headed "Now! Deep Infra-Red Ray From Any Light Socket," which were
shipped with the article, were false and misleading since they represented and
suggested that the article would be efficacious in the cure, mitigation, treat-
ment, and prevention of prostatic troubles, sprains, sinus trouble, neuralgia,
rheumatism, lumbago, neuritis, pleurisy, pneumonia, tonsillitis, influenza,
arthritis, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, fractures, women's ailments, deafness,
ear trouble, skin diseases, torticollis, boils when open, cholecystitis, endocar-
ditis, and low red blood count; that it would be efficacious to raise lowered
vitality, improve the nervous system, relieve pain, improve circulation, promote
absorption of exudate, and increase red blood count; that it would be effica-
cious in the treatment of superficial conditions, such as infections, acute in-
flammations, and deep-seated lesions; that it was a general systematic treat-
ment, and would tend to induce active circulation; and that it would be effi-
cacious for many other purposes. The product would not be efficacious for the
purposes represented.
DISPOSITION: November 12, 1946. A plea of guilty having been entered, the
court imposed a fine of $25.